Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Saturday, June 05, 2010

And here's the worst option I've seen yet for dealing with the spill: the nuclear option. Literally.

The Russians previously used nukes at least five times to seal off gas well fires. A targeted nuclear explosion might similarly help seal off the oil well channel that has leaked oil unchecked since the sinking of a BP oil rig on April 22, according to a translation of the account in the daily newspaper Komsomoloskaya Pravda by Julia Ioffe of the news website True/Slant.